Lauren U and I decided to forego JC show and just have some fun at the Moss Foundation. The Moss Foundation is a huge, huge trail riding / cross country area with scary jumps, galloping trails, etc.

Elvis was great, blah, blah, blah. He’s always fine. He’s Mr Trail Horse.

So this was my very first outing on Miss. I cannot put into words on this blog how completely, totally, 110%, estatically happy I am with Miss. She was dern near perfect. It was the best trail ride I have ever been on. The Moss can be intimdating for even a pretty experienced horse with the other riders, horses, roadside, wildlife, streams, trees, etc. Not to mention, there are no 2ft regular jumps. They are either fallen logs (18 inches) or like “10 fallen logs 3 feet high” (that’s a quote from Upton).

I don’t ever comment on any jump heights (look back over previous blogs… I personally don’t blog where I pinned in shows, or height, because frankly height doesn’t matter - Horses have a way of putting you in your place rather quickly.) However, I am giddy so I will have to say that Miss was completely -honest-, forward and very brave (not to take away from Elvis, he was too). I am very proud of myself and Lauren for sucking it up and having courage, even if it took us 10 minutes at each jump, convincing each other that we should do this. (Let’s see if I have a cell phone signal to call 911… and Mere)

I circled Miss around one jump 3 times for her to look at and figure out where to take off - this is what I was reduced to - allowing the horse to take care of me. Miss said ‘Look crybaby! I SEE the jump… what am I? Blind? Just hang on…stop being a weirdo”. (I imagine both Miss and Cook to be VERY sarcastic horses….they have to be in dealing with me).

OH! and the coolest part!! Ok, so we were cantering down a path…. both horses were going very collected and nicely. We came upon a fallen log blocking our path. I was gonna break down Miss to a trot to go over it, but they were going so nicely that I just let her canter over it…. Miss’s ears were perked forward, so she was paying attention… Both Miss and Elvis jumped it at the same time!! We didn’t even break at all. We loved it! That was super fun! I know it might sound corny but hey! I don’t care! FUN!

That was the other thing. Miss and Elvis got along very, very nicely.

Lauren, thanks for everything, especially the encouragement. That was really good for my confidence and my mental state.

My batteries died on the trail (poop!) but here is a pic of Miss at the trailer. I know she kinda looks funny cause she’s standing on a hill….